Stuck on a translation: Тиссы

[Andrea Gregovich]

Hello Everyone!

I'm back to translating the story about the Siberian writer who takes a
trip to Oxford, which this list was so helpful with last time I asked.  Now
I can't figure out a kind of tree he mentions: "огромные тиссы с
подробнейшей, отчетливо прописанной корой."  Usually I track down his
unfamiliar flora on the internet through a combination of image searches
and broader googling of Latin genus species, which mostly come up easily
when I search his original Russian terms, but this one isn't cooperating.
There are apparently a lot of people, places and things called "Tissa"
around the world.  I do get images of the trees and some Latin names, but
there are enough discrepancies and never a positive ID on a good English
wiki or science-minded site that I'm unsure what they should be called in
English.

Are these Oxford trees really just called "Tissa" trees?  Are there any
other names for them that I might recognize?

Thanks!
Andrea Gregovich

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